Cupcakes in flight!

I normally don't post photos of cakes before the recipient has received them, but this little lot are flying to Northern Ireland tomorrow (courtesy of my sister, the cakes mule), and I'm not 100% sure what condition they'll be in when they arrive.

My cousin ordered 24 cakes because he finally has the opportunity to taste them! He ordered 12 chocolate cakes with vanilla icing in Cookie Monster and Elmo designs, and 12 vanilla cakes with strawberry buttercream. I made some little strawberry characters out of fondant icing, and sprinkled them with some edible glitter too.

So, Andy, thanks for your order. I hope they arrive looking as good as they do here, and tasting even better! (And good luck transporting them, Bob!)


Vanilla cakes, strawberry buttercream, edible glitter, and a friendly strawberry smiling at you.



All boxed up and getting ready to fly (Just need the clingfilm and extra reinforcing cardboard)


Sesame Street? No, we're off to Northern Ireland!


I wouldn't dare bore anyone with another photo of my Cookie Monster cakes, but Elmo's still a work in progress, so I feel i still have something to say about these cakes.
This one is the best Elmo yet, though now I think his mouth is too big.


Fasten your seatbelts, Elmo and Cookie!

Danny's 4th Birthday

This weekend is a real anniversary for me, because not only is it my son Danny's 4th birthday, but it was Googling cake ideas for his birthday last year, and thinking, "I could do that!" that gave me the inspiration for my little business.

For months now Danny's been telling me that he wanted Spiderman and Cookie Monster cakes, but at the last minute he also added Elmo to the mix. Good because I wanted to work a bit more on my Elmo design- his mouth is different to Cookie Monster's, and this time I put some white icing on the cake first, so that his rugby ball-shaped head is more obvious.

I also baked some of Nigella Lawson's Butter Cut-Out Biscuits (from her Domestic Goddess book), and Danny and I iced them so that he could take them into school and share them with his nursery friends.

Chocolate Guinness cakes with vanilla or chocolate buttercream and fondant decorations






Blowing out the candles.


Look out, it's SpiderDan!


Ruby chose Cookie Monster and got a bright blue mouth!


Icing the number 4-shaped biscuits for Danny to take to nursery.


You can probably tell which he did and which I did.


Unbelievably, Danny is 4!

...On my way to where the air is (cakes are) sweet

12 Sesame Street cakes for Lilly's birthday. She wanted Cookie Monster cakes but her little brother likes Elmo, so she ordered one for him too!

Chocolate cakes with vanilla buttercream and fondant icing decorations.




Cookie




Elmo
(I think I should have done some white icing underneath his face, so that his 'rugby ball' shaped head stood out more. Otherwise the red icing blends into the chocolate cake too much)




Really like the fact there's just one different face in the box (though it was a bit fiddly to ice just one in a different colour, rinsing the icing nozzle etc.)